On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:42:03 -0700, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>You'll definitely be better off with a dedicated folder for all Vanagon
>related emails.  The digest is hard to use, and you need to create a new
>reply email to participate, you can't just hit your "reply" button to join
a thread.

Stuart,
I don't disagree with creating a dedicated folder, but a reply in digest
mode is actually quite easy.  Go the the archives

http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html

and click on the current week at the top of the page, go to the desired
thread, and reply right there.  As a bonus, the entire thread is indexed
right there in front of you and you may often see that numerous other list
members have already replied, perhaps making another reply unnecessary;
time saved. By checking the current status of a given thread in the
archives before posting, much redundancy could be avoided.

If you do choose to continue with a reply, an added benefit is that you can
reply to any of the posts in the thread, not just the original post, and
you can easily copy and trim whatever portion of the post you wish to
include in your reply, as I did above.  This feature is not exclusive to
the archive page, but it's convenient to have the entire index of the
thread at your disposal when writing a reply.